Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Rengar against Heimerdinger matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Rengar usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rengar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Rengar makes an ok counter for Heimerdinger.
While Rengar does have a lower winrate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Rengar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Rengar into Heimerdingeras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Rengar also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rengar is a somewhat poor counter for Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Heimerdinger.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rengar to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Rengar versus Heimerdinger build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Rengar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Heimerdinger than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rengar had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Heimerdinger as Rengar, Rengar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rengar vs Heimerdinger counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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